Trump signed more than 200 executive orders immediately after his inauguration
After his inauguration, US President Donald Trump signed more than 200 new decrees. Among them are the introduction of a state of emergency on the border with Mexico and the inclusion of drug cartels in the list of terrorist organizations.
As follows from a number of new decrees, a state of emergency will also be introduced in the energy sector, which will allow to cancel many decisions of the former President of the United States Joe Biden and start active drilling of oil and gas wells. In addition, according to media reports, more than 50 Homeland Security officials who called the laptop scandal involving Hunter Biden, the former president's son, "Russian disinformation" will be suspended.
Trump will also shut down all inclusivity programs at the federal level. Only two genders are now recognized in the U.S. - male and female. In addition, the Republican will again withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. Image decrees are also expected - so, the Gulf of Mexico will now be called the American Gulf, and Mount Denali - McKinley (in honor of the 25th president of the United States).
Trump has already instructed the State Department to implement the policy of protecting national interests according to the principle of "America First", follows from the White House document.
"It's the issue of migration, it's the issue with sexual minorities, it's the issue with inclusivity, it's the issue with taxes". He's going to expand the U.S. mining authorization, he's going to repeal a number of Biden's bans. All the statements that have been made on the Panama Canal, on Greenland, it's all a matter of ensuring the national security of the country in the western hemisphere, too. Here Trump will put America first," Konstantin Sukhoverkhov, program manager of the Russian International Affairs Council, told Izvestia.
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